★ The back issues ★

Issues.

Every issue of Compute!, free to read. Sourced. Illustrated. Three issues so far; the next lands on 30 June.

  1. №3
    S-1,
    S-1,
    S-1.
    The IPO Special
    №3 · 16 June 2026 · The IPO Special

    S-1, S-1, S-1.

    Three frontier laboratories filed S-1s with the SEC in the forty days between 1 May and 8 June. The combined private-market valuation, at print, was $2.84 trillion. The bankers, in all three cases, were mostly the same five firms.

    • The Lede: SpaceX. Roadshow. $135 fixed, $1.77tn. Musk keeps 82%+ of the vote.
    • The Money: Anthropic, $965bn post → $1tn float. S-1 confidential, 1 June.
    • The Joke: OpenAI, on timing: "We have not decided."
    • The Service: The Web, Vol. 3 — in dollars.
    Read Issue №3 →
  2. Issue №2 cover — Andrej Karpathy mid-leap between OpenAI, Tesla, and Anthropic logos.
    №2 · 2 June 2026 · Musical Chairs

    He's Back. (Again.)

    The boomerang autodidact joins Anthropic — his fifth lab in eleven years. Schulman lands at his third lab. Meta reportedly offers $1.5bn. The corkboard, on its own report, is running out of room.

    • The Lede: Karpathy to Anthropic. Stop №5.
    • The Money: Shazeer back to Google for $2.7bn.
    • The Joke: Zoph: out and back at OpenAI the same day.
    • The Service: The Web, Vol. 2 — twelve portraits, every move on the record.
    Read Issue №2 →
  3. Issue №1 cover — Musk v Altman.
    №1 · 19 May 2026 · Musk v Altman

    "Stories, not facts." (OpenAI wins.)

    Three weeks. Nine witnesses. $134 billion on the table. A jury that deliberated under two hours. Inside Musk v Altman.

    • The Lede: The verdict, with red string.
    • The Money: Eleven years of grudges, eleven players pinned.
    • The Joke: Mr. Brockman, on the witness stand.
    • The Service: The Web, Vol. 1 — the inaugural pull-out.
    Read Issue №1 →

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